First Edition. London: Concrete Publications Limited, 1950. Octavo; 66 pages, including 9 pages of advertisements and 2 pages listing books in the "Concrete Series." Bound in grey boards with ornamental design over blue-green cloth spine. Covers and endpapers foxed, else pages unmarked. Shallow bumping to spine ends. Binding is sound..... More
Washington, D.C. and Heilbronn: Historical Society of Washington, D.C. and Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, 2005. First Edition. Quarto (29.5x24x2.5cm); 184pp, including chronology; list of Cluss buildings, and index. Documentary and photographic illustrations throughout. Photographic sepia card covers with French flaps; rear flap unfolds to a map of Washington, D.C. in the..... More
Boston: Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat, 1880-1881. First Edition. Two volumes; large, thick quartos; publisher's half brown morocco over textured gilt-lettered cloth, gilt spines in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xi,[1],556; ix,[1],269pp.; original engraved frontispieces, Vol. I contains sixty plates, including original engravings (collated and complete); Vol..... More
Berkeley: University of California, 1954. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($10.00); xiii,[1],147pp.; tipped in color frontispiece, 111 illus. printed on 46 leaves, including two additional tipped in color plates, pictorial endpapers and text illus. throughout. Shallow chipping along the upper jacket margins..... More
![Item #13740 Wertheim Berlin, Leipziger Strasse und Leipziger Platz [Wertheim Album]. Atelier A....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13740.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1659725805)
Berlin: Atelier A. Wertheim, ca. 1906? Folio; publisher's grey pictorial staple bound card wrappers printed in black and gilt, with original unused decorative mailing envelope; 32pp.; chiefly photographic illus. Near Fine, though accompanying envelope significantly toned and brittle with ubiquitous chips and tears along extremities. Quite uncommon promotional..... More
Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 2007. First Edition. Quarto (28x24.5x1.5cm); 207pp, including bibliography and list of exhibitions. Seven color plates and 113 additional color and B&W illustrations of art details, photographs, and documents. Illustrated card covers with deep French flaps. Card spine uncreased and uncracked; textblock unmarked... More
Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo (23x15.5cm); 53pp, augmented with 12 additional unpaginated plates; includes bibliography. In addition to the 12 plates, illustrated throughout with 21 documentary figures embedded in the text. Flecked gray governmental card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers toned along spine with a...... More
Paris: Art Press, 2005. Special Issue May 2005. Quarto periodical (28x21x0.5cm); 114pp, including bibliography. Densely illustrated throughout; advertising restricted to inside covers and three final pages. Entirely in French. Coated periodical-weight covers over lighter coated stock. Minimal paperblock curving, a seeming result of storage conditions, which were exemplary; spine..... More
London: Wm. Isbister, Limited, 1880. "Fourth and much enlarged edition. Octavo. 678 pp. Twenty-five (24) leaves of plates including frontispiece with tissue guard, many colored. Bound in half red morocco with raised bands to spine, ruled and titled in gilt; top edge gilt; light red endpapers. Minor shelf..... More
London: W. Isbister & Co., 1874. "New and enlarged edition." Octavo. 528 pp. Seventeen (17) leaves of plates including frontispiece with tissue guard; charts and graphs; fold-out table. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in black with gilt stamping to spine; green endpapers. Rubbing to edges and joints..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. First Edition. Hefty Quarto (26x21x4.5cm); 576pp. Nearly sixty pages, dispersed throughout the volume, reproduce sketches from Kiesler's journals; a final photographic doublespread by Irving Penn shows Kiesler with a model of his "Endless House." Photographic dustjacket; volume in black cloth with silver..... More
Paris: Éditions G. Van Oest, 1928. First Edition. Large quarto; publisher's marbled card wrappers, printed paper label mounted to upper cover; 45pp. & eighty-four (84) leaves of photographic plates. Some wear to wrapper extremities, most notably splitting to top and bottom inches of rear wrapper along spine, foxing to a...... More
London: Aurum Press, 2015. First Edition. Quarto. 208 pp. Color and b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. Boards with minor shelfwear, but binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good or better. More
New York: Barry Friedman Ltd, 1988. First Edition. Quarto (28x21.5x0.5cm); 66pp, Over 50 color images and many B&W documentary and reference images. Inaugural press-release and photocopied coverage laid in. Photographic and color-field card covers over sewn gatherings. Covers crisp with light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. This..... More
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1977. First Edition. Quarto (27.5x21x0.5cm); 32pp, including exhibition list. Illustrated with B&W photographs throughout, and three color plates. Photographic card covers over sewn gatherings. Text in parallel Dutch and English. Covers are clean and crisp with hints of toning along spine. Previous owner's name in tiny..... More
Tokyo: International Christian University Hachiro Yuasa Memorial Museum, 1993. First Edition. Wraps in illustrated dust jacket. Octavo. Illustrations throughout including two fold-outs. Typed letter signed from Kunio Oguchi, President of International Christian University, to a Dr. Paul Gregory laid in at front. Illustrated glossy dust jacket shows some..... More
Ludwigsburg: Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, 1994. First Edition. From the library of Brenda Richardson. Octavo (25.5x20x1cm); 63pp, including biography and chronology. Twelve full-page color photographs, with 18 additional B&W images, most full-page. All text in parallel English, French, and German versions. Photographic boards; textblock of ivory wove paper. This is..... More
![Item #13186 Model Building for Architects and Engineers [Signed and Inscribed]. John R. Taylor](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13186.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1663355121)
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. Later Printing. Signed by the author on front pastedown with inscription "To Angie, Best of luck in (Hopefully) your chosen profession -- John Taylor." Quarto; [viii], 152pp. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth boards with silver lettering. Jacket rather heavily rubbed and creased..... More
Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo, 1996. First Edition. English language; published simultaneously in Dutch and French. Quarto. 232 pp. Photographs and illustrations throughout, most color. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges with light scratching to surface and some scuffing to rear panel..... More
Beverly Hills: A.R.T. Press and William S. Bartman Foundation, 1988. First Edition. Quarto (25.6x21.5); 40pp. Twenty-five Fiskin photographs—several on gatefolds; additional non-Fiskin documentary shots. Saddle-stapled quarto booklet in photographic card cover with French flaps. This survey of the work of Chicago-born, bi-coastal living Fiskin was published approximately..... More
New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983. First Edition. Quarto (28.5x23.5x1cm); 123pp, including bibliography. Eighty-one images of the kind of dreamy interiors and furnishings Dorothy encountered in the Emerald City. Pictorial card wrappers. Coated ivory textblock. Covers show slight corner- and edgewear. Textblock unmarred and unmarked apart from..... More
Chicago and Washington, D.C.: Smart Museum of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2010. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x23x2cm); 271pp, including map, chronology, glossary, and bibliography. Color photographs, B&W historical images, and computer recreations on nearly every page. Photographic card wrappers with generous French flaps. Entirely in English. Volume..... More
Washington, D.C.: Office of History and Historic Architecture / Eastern Service Center, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); publisher's blue pictorial card wrappers; [2],vii,[1],147pp. & 42ll. of plates including one folding plan. Some wear to extremities from handling, spine a bit toned, old piece of tape to upper cover as well..... More
Paris: Guy le Prat, n.d., ca. 1947. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm.); publisher's limp tan boards printed in brown; [2],110pp.; photographic illus. throughout. A bit of toning to boards and textblock, bump to top edge of rear cover, small chip to top fore-edge corner of upper cover, else Very Good..... More
![Item #9947 Settings and Stray Paths: Writing on Landscapes and Gardens [Signed]. Marc Treib](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9947.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1624379814)
New York: Routledge, 2005. First Edition, wrapper issue. Signed by Treib on title page to Brenda Richardson with inscription, "For Brenda, Another book?! He should get a real life. With Love, Marc." Octavo. 237 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Covers lightly worn at extremities with some general rubbing..... More